In International Law and the Public**, Geoffrey P.R. Wallace investigates the public as a crucial, often overlooked, actor in international law.** He asks just who is it that counts in the operation of the international legal order. Defying conventional wisdom that sees governments, leaders, generals, lawyers, or elites from the upper echelons of society as the main international legal players, Wallace advances a "popular international law" where ...

Meet Greta, a curious penguin from the vast Southern ocean.A frozen place, so cold, she usually moves in slow motion.On a beautiful day, right around the annual spring equinox,Greta finds a black floating crayonbehind a super heavy black box...

Only those who have powers live in Tempest-one of only two settlements left after war tore through the world.The Hallows is a walled city, hell bent on extinguishing magic and all who possess it.Winterly Elder has been a prisoner of The Hallows since birth for reasons unknown to her. All she knows is that strange things happen around her.But when she escapes and finds herself in the care of a new friend, Ingram, she embarks on a journey to learn who she is and who h...

This groundbreaking work delves into the esoteric layers of traditional knowledge to uncover critical distortions within the practice and understanding of Sanatana Dharma. Mukundan P.R. presents profound Revelations that seek to restore the lost purity of these ancient teachings, clearing a path of clarity for the seeker. Building upon a lineage of wisdom, this text exposes the subtle errors that have calcified into tradition, offering a corrective vision that is both intellectually rigoro...

A Truth Disguised as Fiction. Survival in the Shadow of the Swedish Dream.Memory isn't a fairytale. It's cold water filling your lungs while everyone insists you're breathing just fine.In the idyllic suburbs of 1990s Sweden, red-tiled roofs and orderly hedges hide a brutal reality. For six-year-old Pontus, safety is a myth, and home is a battlefield ruled by an invisible, suffocating enemy: The Fog.More than just the sour-sweet stench of alcohol and...

Are you sick of hearing that promoting a brand means breaking the marketing budget?Discover insider know-how that spends less and achieves more.Do you struggle to make public relations work? Frustrated because you wish you understood how to use your limited time and resources to achieve real PR momentum? Feel like standing out from your competitors is an endless battle?Repeatedly ranked among the top ten most influential PR professi...

Contemporary global culture, rooted in neoliberalism and free market forces, increasingly emphasises appearance over substance. People and organisations are judged by image and reputation while social media encourages and enables us to develop our own public persona.This book explores the rise of promotional communication with a particular focus on public relations (PR) and its role. Organisations, from local charities to multinational corporations, employ professional PR staff to ...

The uptake of digital media platforms necessitates the need to understand how digital cultures of consumers and brands are unfolding. Despite the increase in usage and adoption of the internet in Africa, there is limited information about digital marketing trends on the continent. This book is among the first to present an edited collection of chapters on digital and influencer marketing authored by many who are either from or have close ties to Africa.This book showcases digital m...

Learn how to apply cognitive principles to the problems of computer visionComputational Models for Cognitive Vision formulates the computational models for the cognitive principles found in biological vision, and applies those models to computer vision tasks. Such principles include perceptual grouping, attention, visual quality and aesthetics, knowledge-based interpretation and learning, to name a few. The author’s ultimate goal is to pr...

Arcana, the secrets and mysteries of a land remade by Angels of Light and Darkness, remains in the tales, tomes, and relics scattered through Erilan, a war-torn continent of once-great kingdoms. Seven hundred years ago, the War of the White Crown decimated the races Galadorian, Croe, Toran, Daiman, Ur, and Daemon, and much of their history was lost. Four unlikely heroes, with secrets of their own, set out to reclaim the forgotten lore and tokens of magic that hold the hope to oppose the da...

What are the biggest trends in PR and Media we could expect in 2018? While it’s no easy task to make predictions, even if 2018 is almost here, there are some forecasts based on what happened this year and the trends that caught the highest speed in the past months. So, what is the communication industry preparing for us in the coming year? Let us see what the experts say about it.

Augmenting Public Relations examines how existing technologies used in Public Relations (PR) are being significantly augmented because of the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book describes the opportunities and pitfalls of AI, recent and emerging technologies, and projections in their development, offering an introduction to practitioners on how they, too, can create their own AI-enhanced tools.The developments in augmented, virtual and meta-reality, aided by A...